WordPress Performance Plugin: Speed Booster Pack

Speed Booster Pack is an amazing WordPress performance plugin. It makes your WordPress site load much faster. That’s just one part of the story.

The official plugin page description mentions: Speed Booster Pack allows you to improve your page loading speed and get a higher score on the major speed testing services such as GTmetrix, Google PageSpeed, YSlow, Pingdom, Webpagetest or other speed testing tools.

Optimize WordPress Performance and Speed With Just A Click. No Performance Analysis Needed

You want to Move scripts to the footer? Just click on the button. You want to Lazy load images to improve speed? Click to enable that option. Defer parsing of javascript files to further improve performance. You got it.

Every time you enable an option and save it, Speed Booster Pack offers immediate feedback on the changes. Instant gratification on a WordPress performance plugin.

With each save Speed Booster Pack will check and update the following parameters for the Home Page Load Stats.

Page loading time in secondsNumber of executed queriesPeak Memory Used

Every time you make a performance change on your WordPress site, Speed Booster Pack tells you if it works or not. Will it load faster or not? Is this actually a performance boost or not? It’s quick WordPress performance analysis done every time for you.

Speed Booster Pack. Image And Photo Compression Level

The plugin is also able to compress new images to improve load times and performance. According to the description of this feature:

“The default image compression setting in WordPress is 90%. Compressing your images further than the default will make your file sizes even smaller and will boost your site performance.

Note that any changes you make will only affect new images uploaded to your site. If you want to update all of your images with the new sizes, install and run the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin. As a reference, a lower level of compression means more performance. We recommend you choose a compression level between 50 and 75″.

Lower level of compression means more performance and faster loading times. It also means photos and images with less detail, reduced clarity and more artifacts. This is something you need to experiment with.